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On the anniversary of Delta Airlines giving orders to the CDC.
The blatant corporate business takeover of the CDC’s worker safety policy, and the inability of workers, including pilots, to recover when sick. (This is an economic issue by the way.)
I wrote about this letter almost a year ago, because I was still angry about this, and I found that some people, perhaps many, were not actually aware that business interests were the only reason why the CDC shortened the isolation guidelines, and it was not based in any science or any reason at all to think that people weren’t contagious as long or anything like that.
3 years ago, the CDC made medical guidelines to please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry. Delta Airlines didn’t want employees taking sick time, even if it means flying planes sick. Many Americans don’t have paid sick time at their work, and are already incentivized to work sick. And then, amid an ongoing pandemic, the CDC issued medical advice that specifically encourages employers to prevent employees from recovering properly, and promoting spread of the virus.
Delta Airlines sent a letter to the CDC on December 21, 2021 complaining that the 10 day isolation guidelines were interfering with their operations because of people being off sick too often. Instead of better infection control, stopping the spread among staff, or hiring more staff to cover the “new normal” of everyone getting covid on the job all the time, they instead asked the CDC to reduce the isolation time recommended.
On December 27, 2021, the CDC complied with Delta Airlines request and reduced the guideline for isolation down to 5 days. This is the supposedly scientifically guided medical advice for isolation time, for public health and the wellbeing of citizens. But instead they sided with the corporations.
At the time even conservatives I know scoffed at this - sometimes without even knowing about the Delta Airlines letter. Many people knew that this was about businesses wanting to push people back to work even while sick, even if the authorities sometimes treat us like fools.
I was looking for the CDC notice from December 2021, when I went back to a People’s CDC webpage where I knew it was referenced with a link, which worked when that was posted November 5, 2023. The link to the CDC website no longer works, the page was taken down sometime in the past 2 months. It’s still available on The Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which has not forgotten — along with me, and many Americans who also have not forgotten.
December 21, 2021 Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30333 Dear Dr. Walensky: We are writing on behalf of Delta Air Lines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reconsider the current guideline for 10 days of isolation in fully vaccinated individuals who experience breakthrough COVID-19 infections. This guidance was developed in 2020 when the pandemic was in a different phase without effective vaccines and treatments. At Delta, over 90% of our workforce are fully vaccinated, and those rates are increasing daily. Our employees represent an essential workforce to enable Americans who need to travel domestically and internationally. With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the 10-day isolation for those who are fully vaccinated may significantly impact our workforce and operations. Similar to healthcare, police, fire, and public transportation workforces, the Omicron surge may exacerbate shortages and create significant disruptions. Further, all airline personnel are required to mask at airports and on airplanes. Current data suggest that Omicron is 25–50% more contagious, and likely less virulent and associated with more mild disease particularly among individuals who are fully vaccinated. Further, Omicron is associated with a shorter incubation period and infectious period among the fully vaccinated. To address the potential impact of the current isolation policy safely, we propose a 5-day isolation from symptom onset for those who experience a breakthrough infection. Individuals would be able to end isolation with an appropriate testing protocol. As part of this policy change, we would be interested to partner with CDC and collect empirical data. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the CDC to protect the health and safety of our people, customers and communities as the pandemic evolves. All our very best, Carlos del Rio Medical Advisor Delta Air Lines, MD Henry Ting MD SVP and Chief Health Officer Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian Chief Executive Officer Delta Air Lines
https://news.delta.com/sites/default/files/2021-12/delta-letter-to-cdc-december-21-2021.pdf
#cdc#it's just business#delta airlines#airlines#travel industry#travel#infectious diseases#infection control#government#politics#covid denial#workers#worker safety#public health#pandemic#healthcare#labor#corruption#corporate capture#misinformation#capitalism#corporate america#paid sick leave#sick leave#paid sick#sick days#isolation#quarantine#contagious#staffing
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Workers step forward
#journalism#uniparty#unions#labour#student activism#Palestine solidarity#Gaza genocide#uncommitted Democrats#strikers#DNC#demonstrations#encampments#weapons industry profiteers#corporate capture#lobbyists
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Public Comment - GMO corn petition
REJECT – Bayer / Monsanto’s petition for MON-87429 corn BAYER gmo pesticidesComment deadline May 6, 2024You may submit comments by either of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 2020–0021 in the Search field. Select the Documents tab, then select the Comment button in the list of documents.…
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#24-D#bayer#corporate capture#dicamba#FDA#glyphosate#GMO#health#monsanto#pesticides#QUIZALOFOP#toxins
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it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#hod#hod lobcorp#lobotomy corp spoilers#I GUESS i almost forgot i drew her box form#lobcorp spoilers#and michelle actually. ..#both very tiny. itty bitty. microscopic#other sephirah there too as normal. i cant have her alone. and Angelina as well on the top patting her#i have a hard time fully capturing her for some reason. in my mind. maybe its because is the disconnected period!!! mentally#she genuinely wishes to care and be kind yet theres a dissonance with what she does..? or how it ends up being taken or what she does to en#up bringing those actions into reality. she can be forceful? wanting to have employees attend therapy sessions and meetings for suppression#tactics. which i think is also something the safety team is incharge of iirc. so that means shes doing way more that what she needs to on#her job as a sephirah. just for the sake of employees#she really does care as shes one of the only to Directly attempt to change their circumstances and quality of life and health#sure chesed doesnt punish employees when they dont do their work assigned or stress them out with work#but he doesnt actively push to attempt to make changes to aid employees besides the research perks which is to the manager#yesod IS right next to her and does also genuinely care but when it comes to employees hes distant at best when it comes to them and the#way he tries to protect them is by enforcing rules but he doesnt really create or attempt to help them like hod does#yesod is sort of a passive? way of doing it. yes he doesn make a push to enforce said rules but he doesnt make new ones. just follows what#is already there in place. hod tries to make new ways and not just for the safety of people like how yesod's has them physically fine and#not letting them over a certain threshold of mental corruption but she tries to have a program to Directly Address such a thing#its born out of care but the genuine worry of being a good person and her naivety ends up having it do more harm than good#sure there may be some employees that actually like and find it useful but so many are just accepting to their fate of Dying to where#her care seems pointless. shes a sephirah and to them a literal metal box why would they go ahead and feel bad for what an 'ai' is feeling#as she is interrupting their free time in the company#which is rude. and shit. iirc the counseling is compulsory but people go because shes a sephirah and their superior. the thought was there#but again it comes off wrong and ends up not working because shes their superior in the end#EEK!!! yeah... hod. the hod. there is WAY more but i can't fit it all here and i already typed enough
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i swear that perturbed bell up at the right is my favorite but brian is the only one im actually confident in drawing </3 phone doodles of the bug below
#toontown corporate clash#ttcc#prethinker#brian toontown#bellringer#benjamin biggs#myart#draw brian consistently challenge go! *loud incorrect buzzer*#thinking about these guys a lot i thinks#fun fact about the last bug he was drawn while my power was out and i think the expression captures that well
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Late night mspaint Chip doodles upon ye
#toontown corporate clash#ttcc#chainsaw consultant#chip revvington#fanart#my art#I like to think I captured his essence#bpd is a massive projection from me onto him look away
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Just finished a 18000+ letter fic that involves Bumble being held captive by the cogs after angering the Chairman too much, which I am only showing to a select few friends because I'm shy like that
Here is a brief moment with the C.O.O. though
#ttcc#toontown#toontown cc#toontown corporate clash#corporate clash#toonblr#chairman#robert cyger#the ottoman#chief operating officer#coo#thomas saggs#This is a follow up to a previous shorter piece I wrote where the capturing itself happened (it involved Chip which was terrifying yes)#I'm not confident enough in my writing skills to show the whole thing off in public but I am kinda proud of what I managed to do#NO this is not a Bumblechair fanfic#bumbleburger
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not to electionpost or anything but this is the most correct take I've seen on the election yet, with the important caveat that this is (mostly) not why the left didn't vote for Harris, but why hardly anyone else did.
#remember: the left is an extremely small part of the electorate#if this teaches anyone anything#it's that democrats a) need a primary b) need to get rid of pro-corporate capture#and c)misogynoir is EXTREMELY alive and real#uspol
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Penn police violently manhandled the suspect who allegedly murdered the health insurance company CEO. This was done in front of the media. Hidden corporate taskmasters of local police departments contrary to American democracy?
#CEO#murder#police brutality#health insurance companies#capitalism#capitalism and democracy#accountability#violence#political violence#unitedhealthcare#union busting#luigi mangione#campaign contributions#corporate lobbying#corporate influence#regulatory capture#anti trust#competition
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just scribbled my thoughts and this came out idk
#toontown#ttcc#toontown corporate clash#graham payser#graham ness payser#toontown pacesetter#flint bonpyre#toontown firestarter#ttcc flashlight#firestarter x pacesetter#strawglicks art gallery#so i just. was feeling brainrot and scribbled a bunch of nonsense#i like how it turned out actually.#captured that chaotic silly energy i was going for
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Taking the bull by the horns
#Canada#Ontario#politics#corruption#corporate capture#responsibility#accountability#activism#Randy Hillier
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but when you get me alone, it's so simple 'cause baby, i know what you know we can feel it
#self shipping#self ship#f/o art#corporate affairs#this is my magnum opus. i can retire now *lies down*#but fr i had a blast drawing this. loved to capture our dynamic like this >:333#my creations
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elaborate self hate and ungodly amounts of yapping. underneath is just the main ones without text on it
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#lobotomy corp spoilers#lobcorp spoilers#abel lobcorp#abram lobcorp#adam lobcorp#x lobcorp#too much. too much effort into this. far too much. why. why.... i know why pointless to qsk its becwuse i didnt want to do things irl#ADAM WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE THAG AUGHHGJGN the text is also placed weird im syill trying to figure out ways to layout text w drawings its odd#its supposed to read top section then left to right to left bock then righr block but its. weird. ITS WEIRD but serviceable so shitpost#quality for formating or how ever you call it with genuine effort . for SOME reason. anyways. elaborate self hate was supposed to be a#captjom for a different work i had in mind before i lost power and thus motivation. might still do it though. its just the As beating the#shit outa eachother in a very shit way. adam would bite someone to win. all im saying. and abram wears slippers. throwable. abel cane. smack#anyways the text i put isnt what i can call really in character its just whay i remember off basic beats and then stretched longer for comic#timing and just to have text there. yeah.... dont kill me..#(says that when ever i end up writing dialog due to my insecurity in the ability to capture the essence of a chatacter)#lobotomy corporation spoilers#i dont remember which spoiler tags i use typically. uhhh works. theres like 3 variations or smthn#can you see where i decided to put actual time into this. it was not planned to have this muhch effort.. visible shift
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